Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-07-28

LARNED will call an election at an
early day to vote on the proposition, to
issue So. 900 bonds for the purpose of
prospecting for natural gas.
ONLY 2S,872 pensioners draw pen
sions every quarter from the Topeka
agency, and the sum total of their
quarterly drawings is s241 ,697 .S6.
THE odiferous little chinch bug is
making sad havoc in the grain fields of
Illinois. The plague is one of the
worst that has ever visited that state.
A HYDRANT was left open ON one of
the streets at Lyons the other night.
and the Democrat is crying for an in
vestigation. The town among the
Rice hills has at last discovered the
value and usefulness of water.
THE Boston Couture craze has
taken another turn. The dizzy wheel
goes round, and young ladies who have
been educated up to the highest notch
can see no harm or indecency in hav-
ing themselves photographed as nature
made them. A photographer named
Gertz has been arrested and bound over
in the sum of 81 900 bonds, by the
Society for the SUPPRESSION of Vice, for
phOtographing the nude bellies of bak-
ed bean Boston and selling the photo
graphs to the public.
THE wrangle over the question of
accepting the Larned waterwOrks still
goes on in their council. The tests
have not proven satisfactory to
all the members of the council.
1t transpires also that the parties
who have put in the works have al
ready mOrtgaged the plant in the sum
of $50, 600, and when it is understood
that the works have cost less than
$50, 900, it appears to some of our
neighbOring city's citizens as though
there was being laid a scheme to conf
dence their city out of snug sum.
A ToRRID wave swept over the
entire country last week, reaching from
the pine clad north to the cypress
shaded south, carrying with it death
and destruction. In Washington the
mercury reached the highest point ever
known for the month of July, at many
places reaching 105 degrees i'll the
shade. In the cities there was no es-
cape from the terrible heat, but here
in Barton county, we suffered no great
inconvenience. though the scOrching
sun probably ruined the chance of a
corn crop in some instances where the
corn was well advanced. 1t is thought
that the strong northwest wind of
Wednesday night broke the backbone
of the heated term here.
THE Hutchinson Ne,cs of Saturday
says sit was not case of 'suppOSition'
but case of official returns" when
they got report that Great Bends
population was 800" Would it not
have been as reasonable to suppose"
that the operator OF the man who gave
him the figures omitted the third
cipher and thus made 500 out of 5000,
as to suppose" that town about
as old as Hutchinson, located in as
good county as Reno and having
street railway, electric lights, WATER
works, a college, and other monuments
to the enterprise of her people, has
only 500? The party who gave you
those figuresGdoubtless thought you
were asking for the number of thrifty
real estate men we have in Great
Bend, else there certainly was some
mistake in transmitting the message.
To THE laborer, the mechanic, the
clerk, to every young man in the city
we say, ''get ii home" In years to
come, when you have seen the life and
joy, the pleasures and eXcitements
which all youth so loves, when you
have sown your wild oats and begin to
recall in memory the days of your
childhood and all the endearing asso-
Citations of a home; when you have
found a mate whose life will be blended
with yours forever and aye, and you
recognize the necessity of providing
her with comfortable surroundings;
when little children gather about your
knee with their childish wants and re-
quirements; then indeed you will know
the value of home which you can call
your own. Then too there will be a
greater demand upon your means, and
if you have made no provision i'll form
er years when there was but one mouth
to feed and one body to clothe the task
of getting home will be doubly hard.